I am writing a week after the real groundhog day of 2020.
As a rule, there should be no connection with such animals and celebration of the life of Jesus (PBUH) but this has happened (and I found all this info on the internet)
How these things got connected on the 40th day after Christmas (Candlemas) is a coincidence or the human tendency to put these celebrations together. A sort of human weakness. Groundhog day is a pure myth and has no basis except some people developed a mythical assumption of the groundhog being smart enough to tell a change of weather by coming out of hibernation and looking at the shadow of its body. Human weakness of mythology, a continuation of older times in spite of all development of civilization and education.
Unfortunately, 2nd February is a Christian holy day. Trying to find the mythological groundhog story I discovered it arose from Pagan goddess Februa of Roman or pre roman days
Being a Muslim I find all this distasteful to say the least.
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